LawyerUp for law firms
Your first meeting, already done.
Every new enquiry lands on your desk as a working file. The facts in order, the issues spotted, the law and the cases pulled, a merits view and a costed path to trial. You read it, fix what you'd fix and sign. The good matters start half built. The duds take five minutes to turn down instead of three unbilled hours.
Most enquiries cost you money before you know if they're any good.
The phone call, the first meeting, chasing the documents, the quick bit of research to see if it holds up. All unbilled. LawyerUp does that groundwork before the matter reaches you, so your time goes on the files worth running.
What turns up with every matter
All of it is a draft until a solicitor at your firm signs it off.
See an example solicitor report and the client versionComplex matter? See the full report stackA chronology you can trust
Every date and event pulled from the client's documents, emails and voice notes. Each line links back to the page or timestamp it came from. Clashes between sources are flagged.
Issues and causes of action
The possible claims mapped out. A dismissal story might raise unfair dismissal, general protections and underpayment. Each one gets its own track.
An elements table
What has to be proven for each claim, scored against the evidence: proven, arguable or missing. The missing items go straight to the client as a checklist.
Authorities, checked
Legislation and cases that fit the facts, with the passage relied on. Every citation is matched against the source database before it appears. No match, no citation.
Merits and the other side's case
A prospects range, the likely outcomes and a damages range with the working shown. Plus the strongest case against your client, written out properly.
Costs and a funding call
Stage-by-stage costs from your own rates, likely recovery and adverse costs exposure. Then a recommendation: standard fees, no win no fee, deferred, funded or refer on.
A roadmap to trial
Every step from letter of demand to judgment, with dates, the cost of each step and the points where the client can settle or stop.
The paperwork, drafted
Letter of demand, brief to counsel with an indexed bundle, first-cut pleadings, witness statement drafts and a costs agreement ready to sign.
A client report in plain English
About four pages the client can actually read. It goes out under your firm's name once you approve it.
How it works for your firm
From the client's first upload to a signed file. Most of it happens before you've had your coffee.
The enquiry comes in
Through an intake page with your branding on your own website, or as a referral from LawyerUp. The client tells their story their way: typing, talking, uploading.
Conflicts and deadlines first
The other side's names run against your conflict register before anything else is read. A limitation date is flagged on day one.
LawyerUp builds the file
Chronology, issues, research, merits and costs, in stages. You can stop it at any stage, correct it and rerun from that point.
It lands on your triage board
New matters ranked by prospects and quantum, with deadlines up top. Open the best ones first.
| Matter | Prospects | Quantum | Deadline | Call |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| GP dismissal, Parramatta | Strong | $18k to $30k | 9 days | Take it |
| Builder walked off, Ipswich | Arguable | $45k | 5 months | Needs docs |
| TPD claim denied, Townsville | Strong | $120k | 2 years | Take it |
| Bond dispute, Fremantle | Weak | $1.8k | 3 months | Refer to the state tribunal |
You review and sign
Click any fact to see where it came from. Edit anything. Every change is logged. Nothing reaches the client until you approve it.
Then you run the matter
The file keeps working as the case runs. New documents go in and the reports refresh. Brief counsel, prep for mediation, track the roadmap and keep the client updated without the phone tag.
The intake engine around the file
A great file is wasted if the enquiry went cold first. LawyerUp runs the five jobs every firm needs, without adding staff.
Lead
New enquiries beyond word of mouth
Your branded case check
On your website, under your name, open 24/7.
A 60-second quiz
Pre-sorts enquiries by area of law and urgency before anyone calls.
LawyerUp referrals
Matters in your areas, already assessed, sent your way.
Response
Every enquiry answered in minutes
Instant reply
An email reply within seconds. A solicitor alerted at the same time.
Instant reply to every enquiry
No caller goes to voicemail and disappears.
After-hours assistant
Takes the story at 11pm and books a time for the morning.
Trust
Keeps not-yet-ready clients warm
Plain-English guides
Sent automatically to people who aren't ready to act yet.
Matter updates
Clients see progress without ringing the office.
Deadline reminders
Nobody misses a limitation date because they forgot.
Conversion
From enquiry to signed client, tracked
Self-service booking
Clients book straight into a solicitor's calendar. Reminders cut no-shows.
Costs agreement, signed online
Disclosure and agreement e-signed from the report.
Pipeline by stage
See exactly where enquiries stall.
Retention
Reviews, referrals and repeat work
Review requests
Asked at the right moment, after a good result.
Referral tracking
Know which clients and partners send you work.
Come-back reminders
Wills, leases and contracts that need looking at again.
One dashboard, every number. Where each client came from, how fast you replied, which matters signed and what each channel earned you.
See it in a demo
You stay the lawyer.
LawyerUp prepares. You advise. That line doesn't move.
Your client, your file
The firm owns the matter, the advice and the client relationship. Export the whole file whenever you like.
Every word signed off
Nothing goes to a client or the other side without a practitioner's approval, logged against their name.
Kept in Australia
Encrypted in transit, kept outside the public website, with each firm's data walled off from every other firm's.
Privilege intact
Material is prepared for the purpose of your legal advice and held by your firm.
Good cases shouldn't stall for cash.
The file LawyerUp builds is most of what a funder needs to see. So when a matter is strong, the funding desk puts it in front of funders, lenders and insurers who've already told us what they back.
Single-case funding
Fees, disbursements and adverse costs cover for bigger claims.
Portfolio funding
Finance across your pool of no win no fee matters.
Disbursement funding
Experts, medical reports and filing fees covered upfront.
Work-in-progress finance
Cash flow while your fees wait on a result.
Funders back the case. They don't run it. Settlement calls stay with the client on your advice.
Pricing
Per solicitor, per month. Pilot firms help us set the final numbers.
Sole practice
Pilot pricing on request
Intake page, case files, client reports and the triage board for one practitioner.
Practice
Pilot pricing on request
Everything in Sole, plus briefs to counsel, pleadings drafts, the roadmap to trial and team sharing.
Firm
Pilot pricing on request
Everything in Practice, plus the funding desk, LawyerUp referrals and a dedicated onboarding contact.
What firms ask us
Does it replace my judgement?
No. It does the digging and the first drafts. The call on the merits, the advice and the strategy stay yours.
What about made-up cases?
Every citation is checked against the source database before you see it. If it can't be matched, it doesn't appear.
Will it work with my practice software?
Exports are standard Word and PDF from day one. Direct links to the main practice management systems are on the roadmap.
Which areas of law?
Employment and personal injury first, Australia-wide. Consumer, insurance, building and estates disputes are coming on as firms join in each state.
See it on one of your own matter types
Twenty minutes on a video call. Pick a time and tell us the area of law. We'll run a sample enquiry through the whole thing while you watch.
Join the pilot
We're working with a small group of firms to shape the product. Tell us a bit about yours and we'll be in touch.